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by mark242 5y ago
Two-factor auth selecting focus and suddenly seeing a dropdown of old, worthless 6-digit numbers comes to mind.
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by mark242 5y ago
Assuming a default message size of ~10kbytes the SES pricing is about $6 for the connections plus the chunks. Your lambda pricing is negligible and the S3 pricing gets you another dollar or so. But you're operating at the wrong scale--
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by mark242 5y ago
Yes. The days of running a legitimate MTA at home are unfortunately over. Many US-based consumer ISPs block port 25 entirely except for connections to their own MTAs, but for the ones who don't, very very many of those IP addresses win
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by mark242 5y ago
When the documentation says "this may cost you money" what they really mean is "this will cost you a lot of money the moment your email address gets onto any spam lists". The number of lambda invocations will go through
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by mark242 5y ago
> I find IP based mail blacklist services such as BRBL obsolete and possibly harmful. Now that we have domain verification services like DKIM SPF etc. Blacklist the domain. SPF and DKIM require opt-in by the sending domain, of which the
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by mark242 5y ago
If your customers are WFH, you aren't visiting them to make a sale.
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by mark242 6y ago
Very disconcerting to launch a laptop without any mention of battery life.
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by mark242 6y ago
Enoch Root is a pretty interesting guy. You should read the Baroque Cycle series to get a little bit of his backstory.
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by mark242 6y ago
Stopping by to say, 9ms API response time is just ridiculously quick. You're starting to run into the laws of physics and client proximity to the datacenter where those machines live. That's a pretty amazing feat. I would assume t
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by mark242 6y ago
Someone who is doing a cost comparison of running Wordpress and forums has absolutely no idea about any of those mentioned services and the power they bring. SQS is just such an amazing tool in a developer's toolkit that is one of thos
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by mark242 6y ago
I think the moral of the story is: if you have a predictable workload that fits within a smallish, stable infrastructure and you can make on-prem work, that's great, more power to you. If you are treating cloud services as purely an ap
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by mark242 6y ago
CI/CD for iOS, MacOS, and React Native builds. Right now the pricing for Mac instances for builds via Github, Gitlab, Circle, etc are ludicrous. For a certain developer velocity, these instances will probably be much, much cheaper than
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by mark242 6y ago
The default eslint/prettier settings require return types for this very reason. Readability and not having to tab between files to figure out a return value is surprisingly helpful for your overall dev velocity.
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by mark242 6y ago
Here's the disconnect, which is why these "webpages need to be slim!" sites tend to make me think they're greybeard nostalgia for an internet that doesn't really exist anymore. Your 1mb webpage is approximately 60ms
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by mark242 6y ago
For those of you hitting ctrl-f "postfix": Postfix is very much not designed to run within a container. Unless you can absolutely 1000% guarantee that you will only ever have one instance of the postfix container running, you _wil
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by mark242 6y ago
tldr: The php process hit the max connections inside the database pool, which caused blocking within the php threads, which caused a thundering herd problem, and without correct tracing inside the wordpress php files the authors didn't
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by mark242 6y ago
If you are not in the CDN business, why on earth would you want to do this? This is my point-- I am not in the hosting business. I am in the application creation business. Every minute that I even have to think about modifying /etc&#x2
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by mark242 6y ago
Here's the beautiful thing about thinking serverless. "Are you really sure that it all re-ran?" Yes I am, because Dynamo streams or Kinesis streams guarantee message delivery. If my Lambda code has a bug in it, which yes sure
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by mark242 6y ago
I have run AWS vs colo at scale. For the cost of precisely 1 engineer fully loaded, I can have 500TB of bandwidth per month, every month. Guess what, it isn't going to take just 1 engineer to maintain your homegrown worldwide CDN. Does
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by mark242 6y ago
Yes, this exactly. The fact that I can guarantee that my code is running, and have entire massive teams at Amazon whose literal job title is to keep my code running, it is such a freeing feeling. I might be able to delete rows from Dynamo f
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by mark242 6y ago
Because that "cheap dedicated server" isn't all that cheap. Just the documentation for backups on your Hetzner server is ridiculous. Why, in the 21st century, should I as an application developer ever have to worry about that
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by mark242 6y ago
Here's why I love serverless. I cannot tell you the number of times I have implemented "upload your photo and it'll get resized to (profile avatar size from design specs)". It's ridiculous, and it's one of thos
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by mark242 6y ago
Nitpick: I don't know of any American cities on the coast that have a road between housing and the sand. Certainly not a major road.
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by mark242 6y ago
If you look at what gets copied to the clipboard, GTUBE is at the end of it.
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by mark242 7y ago
This is the single biggest blocker to running something like Postfix in ECS. This is a huge, huge win.
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by mark242 7y ago
Not sure who makes Plausible, but if the "live demo" is reflective of the actual product, it's sorely lacking. The reason that GA so popular is because of the free tier, sure, but also because GA 360, the really amazingly exp
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by mark242 7y ago
the fact that our database engineer went "I'm not putting that much garbage in my database"! This is really disingenuous-- a DBA should not be a gatekeeper of what gets put into a database. Storing 200 bytes of extra data p
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by mark242 7y ago
I fundamentally agree with the principle -- that pages should be designed to survive a long time -- however the steps the author lays out I completely disagree with. "The more libraries incorporated into the website, the more fragile i
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by mark242 7y ago
Get yourself a used Ford Focus Electric. The range is small, but it's the perfect commuter car and is the closest thing to an "analog" electric car you'll find. Ford took the high-end Titanium body and interior and graft
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by mark242 7y ago
You should probably set up a custom Docker container to act as your "cached instance". If you're doing the same setup steps over and over for each build, and these setup steps are immutable, just throw them into a Dockerfile

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